Our autumn travels this year took us to the Indian Ocean and back on the award winning Qatar Airways, which gave us a perfect opportunity to put in a nice little stopover to Qatar’s capital, Doha. Qatar Airways can do all the heavy lifting to propose transit and hotels for a short stay as part …
King’s day in the Netherlands gives us a 4 day holiday to make use of, and as things were still a bit chilly at the end of April then getting away to the heat is just what we needed. Our chosen destination was Kuwait, plenty of sun, sea and lots of heat, with a lot …
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Tucked away in the south eastern corner of the Arabian peninsula, squeezed between its bigger and bolder neighbours of the UAE and Saudi you will find yourself in the peaceful and relaxing Sultanate of Oman. In this wonderful country, original home of Sinbad the sailor you’ll find miles of beautiful coastline, imposing forts on craggy …
Our trip to Jordan marked our first real foray into the Middle East, and what a wonderful start to this mysterious and enigmatic part of the world. Yes, technically you could say that we had already visited Egypt…but really that sits in North Africa, a whole different continent away from Jordan! We had about 10 …